Oculus Britanniae An Heroi-Panegyrical poem on the University of Oxford. Illustrated with divers beautiful Similes, and useful Digressions [by Nicholas Amhurst] |
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Henceforth, ye sons of Cam, presumptuous race,
No more with us contend for age or place;
At length confuted, quit the learned field,
And to your rival the precedence yield.
In times remote, before the Cam was known,
Our Isis rear'd her head and gain'd renown;
Arts now forgot her temples did adorn,
And flourish'd e'er the Stagyrite was born;
Compar'd with her, the Græcian state gives way,
And Athens was a school of yesterday.
No more with us contend for age or place;
At length confuted, quit the learned field,
And to your rival the precedence yield.
In times remote, before the Cam was known,
Our Isis rear'd her head and gain'd renown;
Arts now forgot her temples did adorn,
And flourish'd e'er the Stagyrite was born;
Compar'd with her, the Græcian state gives way,
And Athens was a school of yesterday.
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